Two new actors are also due to join the cast, with Gossip Girl’s Jessica Szohr in a main role and The Vampire Diaries’ Chris Johnson in a recurring role as Cassius.

Other recurring characters expected to be making an appearance are Lieutenant Yaphit (Norm Macdonald), Admiral Halsey (Victor Garber) and Seth MacFarlane’s sister Rachael as the voice of the Orville computer.

What will happen in The Orville season two?

Although no concrete plot details have emerged, some hints out where the series will go have slipped out.

MacFarlane has said that he wants to include more science fiction elements in the series.

This is part of his plan to make The Orville feel more like the classic version of Star Trek.

In an interview with Digital Spy, he said: “I kind of miss the forward-thinking, aspirational, optimistic place in science fiction that Star Trek used to occupy.”

He continued: “I think there’s some space for the aspirational blueprint of what we could do if we get our s*** together.”

Details of two of the forthcoming episodes have also begun to emerge.

Szohr and Johnson’s new characters will both enter the series in the third episode of the season.

Another episode is said to be a ‘bottle’ episode set entirely on-board The Orville.

Is there an Orville season 2 trailer?

The official trailer for the series was dropped on July 21.

The three-minute sneak peek gives us many more hints at some of the plot points we should expect, such as Bortus and Grayson having a joint birthday party, a storyline where the former is imprisoned on an alien planet, and the team discovering an entirely new star system.